Deuteronomy 19:11:5Deut.19.11.W5TAB
וְאָ֤רַב לוֹ֙
vearav lo
“and lies in wait for him”
- Transliteration
- ve-a-RAV lo
- Extended
- veh-ah-RAV loh
- IPA
- /vəʔaˈrav loː/
Meaning by language
- English
- and lies in wait for him
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-a-RAV lo
- clause
ve-KHI-ye-HYEH EESH so-NE le-re-EH-hu ve-a-RAV lo ve-KAM a-LAV ve-hi-KA-hu NE-fesh va-MET
- sentence
ve-KHI-ye-HYEH EESH so-NE le-re-EH-hu ve-a-RAV lo ve-KAM a-LAV ve-hi-KA-hu NE-fesh va-MET ve-NAS el-a-KHAT he-a-RIM ha-EL
Exegesis
The narrative then unfolds through a series of vav-consecutive verbs—veʾārav {וְאָרַב | wə-ʾā-rav} ‘lies in wait’, veqām {וְקָם | wə-qām} ‘rises up’, and vehikkəhû {וְהִכָּהוּ | wə-hik-kā-hû} ‘strikes him’—followed by nep̄ēš wāmeṯ {נֶפֶשׁ וָמֵת | nep̄êš wā-meṯ} ‘life and death,’ creating a vivid causal progression that culminates in the victim’s death.
Root and etymology
א־ר־בaleph–resh–bet
“to lie in wait”
In context — Deuteronomy 19:11
And if a man, hating his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him fatally, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities ,
About this coordinate
Deuteronomy 19:11:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Deuteronomy 19:11, so the Hebrew word וְאָ֤רַב לוֹ֙ (vearav lo) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Deut.19.11.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.19.11.W5.S1) and character.